Graphos – An undergraduate creative space

Your Work Could Be Featured Here

Posted on February 19, 2021By admin

You could be one of our authors.

Help Us Reboot Graphos!

Posted on February 11, 2025By admin

It’s been a hot minute since anything posted on this site. That’s because life has gotten its hooks into us and we’ve let the important things — like poetry, fiction, artwork, writing about writing, personal essays, and general expression imagination magic — slip away. You can help us. How? You can submit your artwork and Read More ...

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Submission Guidelines

We invite you to share your creative expressions with us — poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essay, drawings, paintings, photographs — so that we can publish them here. Contact Dr. Laurie MacDiarmid via email. Artists may submit: Upload each submission separately. (With the exception of poetry: If you’re submitting more than one poem, create a Read More ...

About Graphos

Graphos, a creative space maintained by and for undergraduate artists, is spearheaded by students at St. Norbert College, a Catholic, Norbertine, liberal arts institution founded in 1898 on the banks of the Fox River, in De Pere, Wisconsin. Some form of Graphos has been in existence since 1990, staffed by students and faculty, serving the Read More ...

Here we are again…

Posted onFebruary 11, 2025February 11, 2025Leave a comment

seeking to reboot the magazine. can you help us?

Take Me Back/Chris Cornelius

Posted onDecember 17, 2022Leave a comment

Take me back to a place and time when the grass was short, and I could see through the woods in the backyard. The cows would keep the trees trimmed and the grass cut. The cows were tame, and the kids could play all day, in the woods behind the house. Skipping stones and hopping over the Read More …

Last Call/Rae Vickman

Posted onDecember 17, 2022Leave a comment

Ring, ring. “Welcome to the Dead Line, where we care about your last requests. How can I help you?” “What? You called me. What are you talking about?” “This is the Dead Line, your one phone call before the Afterlife. How can I help you?” “Afterlife — oh. Damn it.” “Yes. Please take a moment Read More …

Protect & Preserve Wild Places/Sarah von der Ruhr

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 20, 2022Leave a comment

Sarah is a freshman majoring in Business Administration at St. Norbert College. She enjoys a variety of styles and mediums across her writing and art. She currently works in the Writing Center on campus in addition to running her own small business selling her artwork. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing, sewing, Read More …

My Secret Monster/Brynn Schintgen

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 20, 2022Leave a comment

I lived with a monster. not the under-your-bed or the hanger in the closet kind, but a real, live monster. She didn’t seem like one though; her face was kind, she gave the best hugs, and told me that she loved me. But then the monster would come out, snarling and teeth bared, she’d rip Read More …

More Than a Grave/Em von der Ruhr

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Lord Nier and the Beast/Sarah von der Ruhr

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 20, 2022Leave a comment

The first victim found still had her head; many of those who followed would not be so lucky. She was a shepherdess, tending her family’s flock on the rolling hills of the French countryside. One night, she failed to return home. When the other shepherds went out the next day, they found her with her Read More …

Learning about Dead Animals/Sarah von der Ruhr

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Lament of a Local Changeling/Sarah von der Ruhr

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I, unlike my loved ones, am not wholly convinced I am of this world. I look the part until I stare too long; I act the part, but there are gaps in the script; I trust the part, except when I feel the hum in the wild – tugging me towards something strange and familiar. Read More …

I Promise/Chris Cornelius

Posted onDecember 17, 2022Leave a comment

I promise to study more I promise to not procrastinate I promise to take Prince on a daily walk I promise to be more organized I promise to make my bed every single day I promise to be early to meetings and appointments I promised to smile more I promise to look for the good Read More …